Every age has its leaders, its despots, its values, and its gods. They vary only slightly from what was valued by precious generations. Sure, the names change, dress is different, even language changes. Yet, our foibles lead us to the same troubled waters.
Dwight Eisenhower went into a room packed with enormous computers. He put the question to the machines, “Is there a God?”
And they all start up, and the lights flash, and the wheels turn, and after a while a voice says, “Now there is.”
-Joseph Campbell in The Power of Myth
While we read and laugh, we make the same misjudgments today.
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